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Rational Rhapsody Tables: The Basics of Tables - In this video Technical Specialists Andy Lapping takes you through the use of the basic, yet powerful Rhapsody concept of tables. Table cell data is generated in Rhapsody from the information already in the browser. Andy also covers table layouts, structure and properties and then performs some example scenarios. More IBM Rational Rhapsody Tables tutorials can be found below... click through the titles to view them! Rational Rhapsody Tables: Populating Cell Data Using the API - In... [More]

IBM Rational Rhapsody Features You May Have Missed - Another great playlist by IBM Rational User Education which contains a collection of 8 videos created by IBM Rational Technical Specialist Andy Lapping. These videos are short and focus on very useful and profitable Rational Rhapsody features that you may not know about, but can be used to save you time, money, and better extract value from IBM Rational Rhapsody.

Rational Rhapsody: The Basics of Tables - In this video Technical Specialists Andy Lapping takes you through the use of the basic, yet powerful Rhapsody concept of tables. Table cell data is generated in Rhapsody from the information already in the browser. Andy also covers table layouts, structure and properties and then performs some example scenarios.

G ood Day Everyone from Rational Client Success for Rhapsody Very glad to invite you to the Open Mic session on IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.1 & 8.1.1 New Features The session will be held on Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 18:30 IST (9:00am EDT) *OpenMic is a conference call along with webcasts where technical experts share their knowledge and answer your questions. Session Details: Topic: I BM Rational Rhapsody 8.1 & 8.1.1 New Features IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.1 & 8.1.1 being the latest version have... [More]

The earlier versions of IBM Rational Rhapsody (until v8.0.6) did not have the capability to generate the descriptions of Actions and Flows in the generated code. A sample snippet of code in the implementation file would look like this: Thankfully, From Rational Rhapsody version 8.0.6, we can overcome the limitation with the introduction of the following properties: CPP_CG::Operation::GenerateDescriptionForFlowchartActions CPP_CG::Operation::GenerateDescriptionForFlowchartFlows Now, the enhanced code snippet (along with the Action and Flow... [More]

Ever since the release of Rational Rhapsody 8.0.6, the ability to format code generation has just become BIGGER and BETTER. Take a look at the list of properties that could be used to format the code as you want. Every element like Class, Operation, Attribute and other model elements has its own property. The list is quite huge. These properties can be modified at the element level or its owner level. Even the specification and the implementation files have their own set of properties. As can be seen from the screenshot above, Rhapsody has... [More]

Homo Sapiens are not the only intelligent ones.. IBM Rational Rhapsody seems to be enhancing its ‘thinking’ capabilities with the introduction of version 8.0.5. Let us consider you are connecting two ‘actions’ in an Activity diagram with an ObjectFlow. Until the release of 8.0.5, performing the same erroneous step would result in the following error message: Now in IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.0.5, it automatically understands the error and intention and corrects it by converting the link to a... [More]

Over the course of 10 weeks in Q4 2013, developerWorks Rational featured a modeling tip for systems engineers each week from Bruce Douglass. Undeniably, Bruce's 35 years of experience and credentials make him the perfect person to provide this information, and he does so with humor- which makes it all the more fun. We think these are some fabulous hints and tips and hope you find these tips helpful in your daily work as well: Top 10 modeling hints for system engineers: #1 The only effective way to ensure quality is with... [More]

I'm constantly amazed at the great information our developerWorks authors produce on such a consistent basis. To prove that point, here are the latest articles from the past week that have gone live on developerWorks Rational : Develop reliable software with DevOps By: Bob Aiello, Consultant and Technical editor, CM Best Practices Consulting (Division of Yellow... [More]

We're knee deep into fall now, and well into November already! How did that happen? I'm not sure of the time-space continuum shift that has truncated this year, but what I am sure of is that our awesome developerWorks authors have been steadily publishing their great articles regardless of how short or long the year has seemed... Here are the latest articles from the past few weeks which have gone live on Rational developerWorks: New articles Analyzing data in an agile world By: Scott Snyder,... [More]

IBM Rational Rhapsody family provides a collaborative design, development and test environment for systems engineers and software engineers. It uses Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) to enable rapid requirements analysis and visual, model-based design. The UML diagrams are views into the underlying semantic system model; each kind of diagram emphasizes some aspect of the model. Example - Dynamic aspects is represented by behavior diagram - State chart. Statecharts define the behavior of objects by specifying... [More]

In this 3-part series, Rational Technical Specialist Ricardo Camacho introduces you to the concept of Systems Engineering and how it is done across an enterprise and across applications via Rational Rhapsody Designer v4. Introduction to Systems Engineering with Rational Rhapsody Designer v4.x, Part 1 - Introduction to Systems Engineering with Rational Rhapsody Designer v4.x, Part 2 - Introduction to Systems Engineering with Rational Rhapsody Designer v4.x, Part 3 -